But some followup seasons of previous shows saw their audience drop off.
Netflix’s popularity figures always need disclaimers.
To start, Netflix counts a show or movie as watched after two minutes.
Netflix, after all, has no ads.
And Netflix gets its projections wrong sometimes too.
It initially underestimated how many accounts would watchBridgerton, its soapy period-piece series.
But when the time actually elapsed, 82 million had.
For years, Netflix was notoriously tight-lipped about viewership.
As Netflix grows bigger, so too do its shows and movies.
All Netflix’s viewership disclosures are listed below; the newest figures that were just disclosed are in bold.
Netflix says the new two-minute threshold is more fair to all titles, regardless of their length.
But it also means the new stats have inflated viewership numbers by about one-third compared with the old ones.
These are previous viewership stats under the old rules.
They’re figures Netflix released (or projected, where noted) for the first four weeks of release.
